A surprise birthday greeting

On a lighter, human-interest touch, how many 17-year-old girls have five GIs in Afghanistan make a video of themselves singing "Happy Birthday" to her? That happened to my granddaughter, Amy Cimorelli, on her 17th birthday, July 1.

One of the soldiers wrote a comment on the video, "You gotta be here to understand — we'll have a terrible, long day here, come back, and someone will start blasting 'Call Me Maybe' or one of their other amazing songs — it lightens the mood and gets the people going!"